The number of Covid-19 test results being produced at laboratories around the country is 1,500 per day as a significant shortfall in testing equipment hits Ireland. The figure is just 10 per cent of the Government’s stated goal of 15,000 test results being produced per day. Self-isolateIt reminded people that regardless of delays, symptomatic people and those awaiting results should self-isolate for 14 days. Claire Kennedy, a psychiatric nurse in a Dublin hospital, has been out of work for a week awaiting the results of a coronavirus test. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said it was unacceptable frontline workers were waiting for up to a week to get test results back.

Source: The Irish Times April 01, 2020 00:15 UTC